Stringfellow ("Winkle") Barr, president of St. John's College (100 classics), believes that anyone can understand a classic. Last spring he and Columbia Broadcasting System's Adult Education Board decided to try to explain the world's great books to the U. S. radio audience. In a program called Invitation to Learning, each week three literary critics held a half-hour ad lib discussion of a classic before a microphone. Among their topics: The U. S. Constitution, Plato's Republic, Flaubert's Madame Bovary.
Mr. Barr & colleagues combed a list of 300 critics, eventually chose as the program's regulars Princeton's Novelist-Poet Allen Tate, Columbia's Pulitzer Prize...
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